Pete Frates, the former Boston College baseball player who helped inspire the Ice Bucket Challenge, has a new piece of jewelry. Red Sox president and CEO Sam Kennedy brought Frates a personalized World Series Championship ring. Frates posted photos of the ring, and Kennedy's visit, on Twitter. The championship rings are made of 185 stones -- one for each game of the season plus the team's nine World Series titles -- set in white gold. There are 4.5 carats of diamonds, 6.5 carats of rubies and 4 carats of sapphires.Frates was diagnosed in 2012 with Lou Gehrig's disease, also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, and can no longer speak or move. More than five years ago, he and Pat Quinn, of Yonkers, inspired the Ice Bucket Challenge. As the challenge spread, approximately 17 million people around the world doused themselves with a bucket of icy water. The challenge raised awareness and more than $200 million in donations for work on a cure for the debilitating illness.In 2017, the bucket Frates used for his Ice Bucket Challenge at Fenway Park was enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, along with other mementos from his Boston College days.Other recent honors for Frates have included the 2018 naming of a park in Beverly and a new athletic facility at BC's Harington Athletics Village at Brighton Fields.Frates' Twitter account on Friday also featured a photo with his daughter.

BEVERLY, Mass. —

Pete Frates, the former Boston College baseball player who helped inspire the Ice Bucket Challenge, has a new piece of jewelry.

Red Sox president and CEO Sam Kennedy brought Frates a personalized World Series Championship ring.

The championship rings are made of 185 stones -- one for each game of the season plus the team's nine World Series titles -- set in white gold. There are 4.5 carats of diamonds, 6.5 carats of rubies and 4 carats of sapphires.

Frates was diagnosed in 2012 with Lou Gehrig's disease, also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, and can no longer speak or move. More than five years ago, he and Pat Quinn, of Yonkers, inspired the Ice Bucket Challenge.

As the challenge spread, approximately 17 million people around the world doused themselves with a bucket of icy water. The challenge raised awareness and more than $200 million in donations for work on a cure for the debilitating illness.

In 2017, the bucket Frates used for his Ice Bucket Challenge at Fenway Park was enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, along with other mementos from his Boston College days.

Other recent honors for Frates have included the 2018 naming of a park in Beverly and a new athletic facility at BC's Harington Athletics Village at Brighton Fields.

Frates' Twitter account on Friday also featured a photo with his daughter.